Mary > Mary's Quotes

“I can’t believe you grew up and ate a monkey. Worse, I can’t believe I let a guy who ate a monkey kiss my mouth.”
Honey,I kissed more than your mouth.”
― Rachel Gibson, I'm In No Mood For Love

“You'll have to go get laid by a random stranger."
Bo pointed to the television. "Can I wait for a commercial or do I have to git-'er-done right now?"
"You can wait.”
― Rachel Gibson, Nothing But Trouble

“His lids lowered and he brushed her cheek with the tips of his fingers. "What if I fall in love with you?"
She turned her face into his palm. "You won't.”
― Rachel Gibson, Any Man of Mine

“Stay away from me so I don't feel anything for you anymore.”
― Rachel Gibson, Rescue Me

“I'm thirty-six, and I'm in love for the first time. I don't know what that says about me. Maybe that I've waited for you all my life.”
― Rachel Gibson, Rescue Me

“You wanna be friends?"
Click click. Was that so impossible? Was he so mad, suddenly disliked her so much again, that he didn't want to be in the same building? "Yes."
"Friends like before or after we had sex on the floor?"
Her thumb stopped. "Before."
"Not interested."
"Why?"
"Because I don't want to be your friend."
"Oh." She swallowed her disappointment. It might be for the best, but she suddenly didn't want what was for the best. She didn't want to hate Sam and have Sam hate her. What choice did she have? "Okay."
"I want to be your lover. I can't pretend I don't want more. I want to be with you, Autumn. I want to get you naked and throw your legs over my shoulders"
She dropped the pen.
"I want to leave a mark on the inside of your thigh.”
― Rachel Gibson, Any Man of Mine

“You never learn the first time. You always have to get hit twice before you see it coming.” He was seeing now what he’d seen that first night at Pure. A bright shiny light he wanted to catch in his hands and hold forever. If she let him.”
― Rachel Gibson, Any Man of Mine

“I don't ever want to be the reason you cry again.”
― Rachel Gibson, Rescue Me

“When you lock everything down tight so that the pain can't get out, you also keep good stuff from getting in.”
― Rachel Gibson

“Hooyah.”
― Rachel Gibson, Rescue Me

“Shelly, what is this?"

"What?"

"This." She shook her fork.

"A Rocky Mountain oyster."

"Is it a shellfish?"

"No, it's a testicle."

"Oh, my God!" She dropped the fork as if it had suddenly zapped her. "Whose?"

Dylan burst out laughing. "Not mine."

"They came from the Rocking C. I bought 'em during castration season," Shelly told her.

"You bought them? Oh, my God!"

"Well," Shelly answered as if Hope were the crazy one, "they don't just give away free oysters, you know."

"No, I don't know. I'm from California. We eat real food. We don't eat cow ball.”
― Rachel Gibson, True Confessions

“Mom," Nathan called to her.

Daisy pulled her gaze from the tent and the fleeting glimpse of Jack's bare back, the smooth planes and indent of his spine, the sliver of the white elastic just above the blue waistband of his jeans..."Hmm?"

"What's a faaar ant?" he asked just above a whisper.

"Fire." She chuckled and shook her head. "Fire ant. They have a nasty bite that burns."

Nathan smiled. "Well, why didn't he just say fire?"

"He thinks he did.”
― Rachel Gibson, Daisy's Back in Town

“Sometimes God has His own plan. Sometimes shit happens for a reason.”
― Rachel Gibson, Nothing But Trouble

“There were a few things she did know for sure, though. There was no way the pony was going back in the gate. Not when the pony was thirty-four and really liked pulling the milk cart.”
― Rachel Gibson, The Trouble With Valentine's Day

“For the first time since she'd pieced her heart back together, she felt a small tug at one of the strings. She dropped her hands to her sides and took a step back. The one word she'd waited to hear could destroy her carefully constructed life.

"Don't."

Don't make me forget. Don't make it better. Don't make me love you again.

- Autumn Haven”
― Rachel Gibson

“Sometimes a person needs to hear you forgive them so they can start to forgive themselves.”
― Rachel Gibson, Any Man of Mine

“I want you," he whispered. "I've never wanted anything like I want you.”
― Rachel Gibson, Rescue Me

“She’d always assumed that falling in love would be like getting slammed into a brick wall. That you’d just be going along as usual and you’d get knocked on your ass and think, Gee, I guess I’m in love. But it hadn’t happened that way. It had just kind of snuck up on her before she’d realized it. It had happened one smile and one touch at a time. One look. One kiss. One pink cat collar. One pinch to the heart and one breathless anticipation after another until she was in so deep there was no denying it. No turning back before it was too late. No more lying about what she felt.”
― Rachel Gibson, Tangled Up In You

“He was the kind of guy who made Sadie a lit­tle un­com­fort­able. The kind who wore leather and drank beer and crushed emp­ties on their fore­heads. The kind who made her stand a lit­tle straighter. The kind she avoided like a hot fudge brownie be­cause both were bad news for her thighs.”
― Rachel Gibson, Rescue Me

“Sam LeClaire was a good-looking son of a bitch.”
― Rachel Gibson, Any Man of Mine